Bill Gates

Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Founder, Breakthrough Energy and TerraPower

Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and founder of Breakthrough Energy and TerraPower. In 1975, he co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen, and today he is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill is also the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climate-related technologies, and TerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies.

Through his private office, Gates Ventures, he focuses on Alzheimer’s research and other issues such as healthcare, interdisciplinary education, and technology.  He has three children.